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Charming birdhouses that look like retro camping trailers

On April 16, 2018 by

Nashville maker One Man One Garage created these fun flat-pack birdhouse kits that assemble into vintage campers. Via his Etsy: I took ideas from old photographs from a trailer I once had (a 1974 Scotty). The construction of the birdhouse is fairly simple, but the details leave endless possibilities with making this kit personal Read More

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High school student built chip fab in his garage

On December 27, 2017 by

Sam Zeloof, 17 built out a 1970s-vintage chip fab in his parents’ New Jersey garage so he can make DIY integrated circuits. Why? So he can better understand how they work. It’s a “way of trying to learn what’s going on inside semiconductors and transistors,” Zeloof told IEEE Spectrum. “I started reading Read More